Fifth-annual Startup Community Awards celebrates Québec’s innovation ecosystem
Real Ventures’ John Stokes, Ora Medical among the night’s winners.
Canadian Startup News
How Xero overhauled its customer support function using gen AI
For gen AI solutions to deliver value, you need a north star for both your organization and customers.
Woveo closes $2.3 million to expand community wallet platform for underserved banking customers
As cost of borrowing increases, Woveo wants to help non-prime customers save, build credit.
Synctera launches embedded banking platform in Canada
Canadian launch comes nine months after Synctera landed $15 million from National Bank.
Anticipated innovation hub Ax-C to open on former trading floor of Montréal Exchange
Backed with $48 million, Ax-C secures its location as another Montréal hub struggles.
As Intuit winds down Mint, financial planning app Monarch Money comes to Canada
US-based Monarch “fast-tracked” its Canadian expansion after the Mint shutdown news.
R|T: The Retail Times – SkipTheDishes appoints its third CEO this year
Plus: Asian food delivery service Fantuan secures $40 million.
Formerly Qui Identity, Wave alumni launch digital ID verification platform Confirm
Kirk Simpson and Peter Carrescia raised $6.5 million to launch company in August 2022.
Y Combinator graduate Terminal closes $4.2-million CAD seed round
Terminal aims to be the Plaid for telematics data in commercial trucking.
Kitchener-Waterloo tech leaders launch new community-building platform Waterloo Inc.
Intellijoint CEO: “We want to put the focus back on Waterloo Region.”
Vistara Growth secures $200-million CAD initial close for fifth private credit fund
Vistara sees opportunity post-SVB as bank lenders, VCs pull back.
A|I: The AI Times – Google launches its hopeful GPT-4 killer
Plus: “Gentle Canadian” @BasedBeffJezos raises $14M for AI hardware startup.
Leav secures $2.3 million in seed funding for its mobile self-checkout solution
The funding round was led by Nicolas Bouchard’s venture capital firm Exo10.
Durable raises $18 million CAD as it looks to help service-based businesses run on autopilot
Startup claims six million sites have been built with the platform in its first year.
Started in a bar, now we’re here: Startup TNT completes first close of targeted $5-million venture fund
Fund I will write $50,000 cheques to winners of Startup TNT investment summits.